Brassiere



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.. frBaAssIRE Pierre Amyot, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Application July 5,1947, Serial No. 759,235

2 Claims.

This invention relates to brassires and it comprises an improved hookand eye arrangement for securing the body-encircling band of a brassirein place around the body of the wearer.

More particularly, the invention relates to brassires in which one endof the body-encircling band is equipped with a pair of laterally spacedhooks engageable with similarly spaced hooks carried by the opposite endof the band to secure the latter in place around the body of the wearer.In brassires of this type the hooks are formed separately and secured toone terminal portion of the band so that they areseparated from eachother by a exible area of fabric which permits the hooks to have asubstantial degree of relative movement that frequently results in oneof the hooks working its way out of the cooperating eye in response tobody movements.

The object of the present invention is to provide a brassire of thecharacter described in which the two hooks carried by one end of thebody band are rigidly held against relative movement so that they cannotwork loose from the cooperating eyes with which they are engaged. Thisobject is achieved by forming the hooks as integral, laterally spacedextensions of a substantially rigid metal plate provided with a slotparalleling the edge from which the hooks extend. The hook-carryingplate is secured to one end of the body-encircling band of the brassireby means of a folded strap having its extremities secured to said end ofthe band and its intermediate portion passing through the slot in saidplate, said strap having overlapping portions thereof stitched togetheralong the edge of the plate remote from the hook-carrying edge. A tab,carrying one or more pairs of laterally spaced eyes engageable with saidhooks, is secured to the opposite end of the band by means of a foldedstrap having its intermediate portions secured to said tab and itsextremities secured to said band.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Fig. l isa front View of a brassire embodying myimproved hook and eye fastening means. In this view the brassire isshown as it appears when in a flattened condition.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of the hook-carrying plate shown in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings,

5 designates a brassire comprising breast pockets 6 and body-encirclingband 1.

A substantially rigid metal plate 8, provided with a slot 9 and withintegral, laterally spaced hooks I0 projecting from an edge of the plateparalleling said slot, is secured to the end la of band 'I by a foldedstrap II. This strap is threaded through slot 9 and is folded uponitself to provide crossed portions I2 having their free ends secured tothe band by stitching I3. The crossed portions l2 are secured togetherby a line of stitching I4 immediately adjacent the edge of plate 8remote from hooks I0.

A second strap I5, folded in the same manner as strap II, has its freeends secured by stitching I6 to the remaining end 1b of band 1. Thefolded portion of strap I5 is sewn, as indicated at I1, to one end of atab I8 which carries a plurality of pairs of laterally spaced eyes I9engageable with the hooks I0.

The hook and eye arrangement described herein for fastening the band Iaround the body of the wearer is characterized by the fact that thehooks I0 are rigidly connected to the plate 8 which also serves as acommon anchoring plate for attaching the hooks to the band. With thisarrangement the hooks are held against relative movement which, in thecase of separately attached hooks, results in the hooks working out ofthe engaging eyes.

I claim:

1. A brassire including a body-encircling band, a strap folded uponitself to provide crossed r portions having their extremities secured toone end of said band in overlapping staggered relation, a substantiallyrigid plate provided with a transverse slot through which theintermediate portion of the strap flatly extends across the length ofthe slot.' the crossed portions of the strap being secured togetheradjacent one edge of the plate paralleling said slot to prevent tiltingof the plate relative to the body encircling band, laterally spacedhooks formed integral with and projecting from the opposite edge of theplate paralleling said slot, a second strap folded upon itself toprovide crossed portions having their extremities secured to theremaining end of said band and a tab having one end secured to thefolded portion of said second strap and at least one pair of laterallyspaced eyelets carried by said tab.

2. A brassire including a body-encircling band, a strap folded uponitself to provide crossed portions having their extremities secured toone end of said band in overlapping staggered relation, a substantiallyrigid plate provided with an elongated transverse slot through which theintermediate portion of the strap flatly extends across the entirelength of the slot, the crossed portions of the strap being securedtogether adjacent one edge of the plate by a line of stitchingparalleling said slot, a pair of laterally spaced hooks formed integralwith and projecting from the opposite edge of the plate paralleling saidslot, said hooks being located a substantial distance inwardly from theends of the plate andL slot and being also located at the opposite sidesof and equidistant from the transverse centre 4 line of the slot, a,second strap folded upon itself to provide crossed portions having theirextremities secured to the remaining end of said band and a tab havingone end secured to the folded portion of said second strap and at leastone pair of laterally spaced eyelets carried by said tab. PIERRE AMYOT.

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